If you've got little to do this weekend and are interested in incredible tedium, then you could always download what its maker claims is the world's longest mobile phone ringtone. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

A stick bug from the island of Borneo measuring well over a foot in length has been identified by researchers as the world's longest insect. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

Surrey, B.C. school teacher Sarwan Singh calls it a gift from God.

Measuring 2.36 metres - or seven feet, seven-and-three-quarter inches - Singh's lengthy beard has won him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. picked by AutumnLotus 3 weeks ago

A dedicated team of pub goers have drunk themselves into the record books by carrying out the longest ever pub crawl. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

An intergalactic particle beam stretching for more than a million light years is the longest ever seen. According to the team that discovered this record breaker, it could help reveal how such jets of matter bind themselves together. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

A Japanese film crew has shot a 45-second-long video of a flying fish in the air, in what may be the longest recorded flight of the acrobatic species. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Standing at just 2ft 5in high, He Pingping, from China, has been officially named the smallest man in the world.

Svetlana Pankratova, meanwhile, owns the longest legs in the world, which stretch to 132cm. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

Indonesia plans to build the world's longest suspension bridge across the earthquake-prone Sunda Strait, passing within 50 kilometres of the active Krakatoa volcano. The bridge, traversing 30 kilometres, will link Indonesia's main islands of Java and Sumatra at an estimated cost of $12 billion. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

But will you make it to the end? picked by hypnotode 2 years ago

There's nothing fake in the image you see. Tail extensions are excluded. This exceptional horse has such a long tail that it cannot wear it freely outside the arena, but braided and covered in a white tube sock, so that the animal does not sweep the ground with it. picked by AutumnLotus 2 weeks ago

The Royal Canadian Mint created a 100-kg (220lb) bullion coin, made of 99.999 percent pure gold, which was registered in the Guinness Book of Records as world's biggest gold coin. picked by maxriter 1 year ago

They have lived next door to each other for 72 years and are being considered for an entry into the Guinness Book of Records as Britain's longest continuous neighbours. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Eric Hahn broke the official worlds record for the tallest mohawk in Omaha, Nebraska on November 14th. Standing at over 27 inches tall, his mohawk took about 3 hours to create with only a process of hairspray and blow drying. picked by AutumnLotus 2 weeks ago

How many pigs had to lose their anus' for this dream to come true? picked by muppetmaker 10 months ago

The cost is estimated at $10 billion _ and it wouldn't cost taxpayers a dime. A developer wants to build the tunnel with private money, recouping his costs by charging drivers $25 each way and by selling advertising. picked by dollyllama 10 months ago

With the surreal quality of a van Gogh painting a series of majestic emerald arcs light up one of Britain's most iconic landmarks in this stunning photograph. Taken with one of the longest-ever exposures the spectacular picture shows each phase of the sun over Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge taken over a six month period. picked by AutumnLotus 2 weeks ago

The word, which is the scientific name for a protein containing 267 amino acids. It contains 1,846 letters. Take that, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. picked by gratheo 1 year ago

The challenge of finding the largest prime number ever known seems like an impossible task, however, when you put mathematicians and 100,000 computers together, you get an amazing result, which could qualify for the $100,000 prize offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 10,000,000 decimal digits. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

Japanese musicians overcame fatigue and a major earthquake to set the record for the world's longest concert on Saturday, playing 184 hours non-stop in a program that ranged from The Beatles' classics to Japanese traditional harp music. picked by suebe 2 years ago